Reviewer's rating RICE Tim Hochstrasser 14/10/2021This play by Michele Lee won awards in Australia a few years back, receives its first co-production – the Orange Tree...
Reviewer's rating Romeo & Juliet Tim Hochstrasser 11/10/2021The Royal Ballet returns with a bang to Covent Garden with its much-loved production of Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’, first...
Reviewer's rating The Mirror and the Light Tim Hochstrasser 09/10/2021The stage version of Hilary Mantel’s first two novels on the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell was the theatrical...
Reviewer's rating The Normal Heart Tim Hochstrasser 01/10/2021Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart’ (1985) is recognised as one of the most influential plays to come out of the...
Reviewer's rating Jenůfa Tim Hochstrasser 29/09/2021Jenůfa (1904) is Janáček’s first mature opera, but still underperformed in comparison with the five masterpieces that follow it. Though...
Reviewer's rating Back to the Future: The Musical Richard Voyce 28/09/2021Show business is, as the saying goes, not art, but business. And business can be a very venal beast. Rarely...
Reviewer's rating Rock of Ages Richard McKee 22/09/2021Only two weeks ago the New Wimbledon Theatre, opening at last after so many months of ‘restrictions’, was packed with...
Reviewer's rating MXNIFESTO Richard McKee 17/09/2021Titania Gethsemane McGrath is “a spoof radical intersectionalist poet”. When I read that before the show, I was puzzled. What...
Reviewer's rating Piazzolla Project Tim Hochstrasser 17/09/2021This year’s Grimeborn festival came to an end on Sunday with an uplifting survey of the career and work of...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2021An air of some excitement and anticipation hangs in the packed Royal Opera House’s auditorium. This is the first performance...
